Watch out for letters from people you don't know.
It wasn't very clever, but apparently a tobacco lobbyist thought he could get by with writing a letter over the signature of a teacher to oppose Measure 50 in Oregon. The proposed legislation would increase cigarette taxes to pay for tobacco education programs and help fund children's health care.
The letter was supposedly from a first-grade teacher in Salem, but the return address turned out to be the office of Mark Nelson, a lobbyist for R. J. Reynolds Tobacco.
Read the whole story on KATU TV's web page.
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